Multimedia Presentations at Adventure World German Language in Köthen Castle

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2. Georg Heeg eK
@
21th International Smalltalk
Conference
Annecy

3. Georg Heeg
Presents
Georg Heeg eK
Multimedia Presentations at
Adventure World German
Language
in Köthen Castle

4. Georg Heeg eK
• Founded 7/7/1987 in
Dortmund
– Original Mission
• Spread Smalltalk in Central Europe
• 1996
– Georg Heeg AG Zurich
• To serve the Swiss Market
• 1999
– Subsidiary in Köthen (Anhalt)
• To keep Family Heeg together

5. Main Activities
• 100% Smalltalk
– Training
– Consulting
– Product development for customers
– Project support
– ERP System Component Studio

6. Our Team
• 14 Smalltalkers
– 7 to 28 years of Smalltalk experience
– 6 certified Scrum Masters
• 1 Web Designer
• 1 Sales Person
• 4 Craftspeople
• 1 Business Administration Manager

7. April 27, 2013
• Adventure World German Language
opened at Köthen Castle as part of
Köthen History Museum (http://www.erl
ebniswelt-deuts che-sprache.de/ ).

8. Welcome to Köthen Castle
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9. Let‘s enter Adventure World
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10. Welcome
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11. Displays
• Traditional displays
• 3 self-service 42” touch monitors
– visitors can interact
– information systems providing different kind
of information

12. Let‘s go through the Exhibition
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13. Tasks
• The only tasks the developers needed to
fulfill are:
1. Easy to use by everybody without any
explanation.
2. Show information in good looking ways.

14. How to Use the Surface
• All screens are Full HD 1080p
• 1920:1080 = (16:9) * 120
• PowerPoint uses 4:3 = 12:9
• Control panel: 4:9 (25% of the width)
• 85% to 90% are right-handed

15. The Surface

16. Behind the Scenes
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17. System
• Standard PC
• 2 Monitors
– Primary to control
– 42“ Touch Monitor
• Windows 8
– For gesture support
• VisualWorks 7.9.1

18. Demo Time

19. Screen Architecture
• VisualWorks Canvas
– autoplaced on full second screen
– configurable button pane (right)
– exchangable subcanvas (left)
• mostly Internet Explorer 10 in Active-X

20. Inside the Subcanvas
• VisualWorks Application
– Denckring
• External Web Site
– Humboldt University Berlin
– So sprachen unsere Vorfahren
• Converted PowerPoint presentations
– e.g. Welcome

21. Inside the Subcanvas II
• Seaside Application
– Scrabble
• Award winning
• SeaBreeze Applications
– easier to make good looking (css)
• Member and book databases
– also as front-end to other web sites
• Word creation machine

22. Virtual keyboard
• VisualWorks window
• Controlled by seaSide apps
– using call-backs

23. Special Issue I
• Gesture Support
– Windows Message WM_GESTURE
– GetGestureInfo() must be called in WndProc
• to fill GESTUREINFO structure
• Dual Thread VM
– only allows WndProc being implemented in
C/C++
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24. Special Issue I

25. Special Issue II
• Some gestures are unwanted
– Ribbon effect moves the entire window
– Two finger gestures modify the layout
• Filtering of events only option
– must be implemented in C/C++

26. Cinema
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27. Cinema
• Automatic scheduling of videos
– every 30 minutes
• Dimming the lights
• Schedule of the rest of the day
– when no video shown
– show current time
• Manual control option

28. Our Team made GH Show come true

29. Georg Heeg eK
Georg Heeg eK
Baroper Str. 337
44227 Dortmund
Germany
Tel: +49 (0)231 - 97599 - 0
Fax: +49 (0)231 - 97599-20
Email: georg@heeg.de
http://www.heeg.de
Georg Heeg AG
Seestraße 135
8027 Zürich
Switzerland
Tel: +41 (848) 43 34 24
Georg Heeg eK
Wallstraße 22
06366 Köthen
Germany
Tel: +49 (0)3496 - 214 328
Fax: +49 (0)3496 - 214 712